Family name origins & meanings
- German (also Kräge) : from Middle High German krage ‘neck’, ‘collar’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a maker of collars or someone who wore a distinctive collar.
- German (also Kräge) : nickname from krage ‘simpleton’, ‘fool’.
- German (also Kräge) : in the Rhineland, a variant of Krähe (see Kray).